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Our website cookie policy

Cookies – small pieces of anonymous information which are downloaded to, and stored on, your computer

We want you to know how our website uses cookies in order to operate smoothly and enhance your browsing experience.

Cookies enable our site to recognise if you are a previous visitor, and to remember your viewing preferences. They don’t collect information that identifies you personally. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

They may help you to navigate through the site and perhaps reach the information you need more quickly. Sometimes they enable us to present certain types of information to you based on your previous visits.

Some types of cookie would enable you to watch videos or complete surveys on our site, whereas others can suggest products based on your browsing history.

Types of Cookie

Essential cookies:

These include cookies which permit you to move around the website and use its features, such as entering secure areas. Without them, the site cannot provide access to services like application forms.

Efficiency and Analytical cookies

We use a range of cookies to enable us to collect information about visitors to our website. This includes information such as visitor numbers to each of the pages on our site and whether you visited our website via a search engine (such as Google or Bing).

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, and are only used to improve how our website works.

Links to external websites

On our homepage, you will see links to other websites. Our cookie policy will not apply once you enter these websites.

If you want to disable a cookie

By following these instructions, you will be able to disable cookies in your browser.

Please be aware that:

You will need to alter your cookie settings for each type of browser and device which you use to browse our website.

By removing certain kinds of cookies, you may miss out on future offers which may be of interest to you.

You may not be able to use all of the interactive features on our website if cookies are disabled.

BROWSER

ESTABLISHING YOUR COOKIE PREFERENCES

Internet Explorer 7+

From the ‘Tools’ menu, click ‘Internet options’

Select the ‘Privacy’ tab

Move the slider to your preferred level of privacy

For more detailed cookie options, click on ‘Advanced’ and check the ‘Override automatic cookie handling’ box, then modify your settings

Firefox

From the ‘Tools’ menu select ‘Options’

Select the ‘Privacy’ tab

Select the ‘Cookies’ option if available, otherwise select ‘Use custom settings for history’ from the ‘Firefox will’ drop down menu

Choose your preferred cookie settings

Google Chrome

Click the spanner icon on the browser toolbar

Select ‘Settings’

Click ‘Show advanced settings’

In the ‘Privacy’ section, click the ‘Content settings’ button

In the ‘Cookies’ section, you can change the following cookie settings: